Take action: Stop the reopening of the Homestead immigrant child detention center today!

The following advertisement from American Friends Service Committee has been sent to you via Mother Jones' email list. Mother Jones is a nonprofit, and most of our budget comes from readers like you, but revenue from advertisers helps us produce more of the hard-hitting journalism you expect. We never disclose your information to an advertiser. Mother Jones does not endorse any candidate, political organization, commercial product, or service, and the views expressed in this email do not constitute any endorsement or recommendation by Mother Jones. [American Friends Service Committee Logo] [Homestead action]( Dear Friend, We recently learned that the Biden Administration is planning to reopen a detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Florida—essentially imprisoning children who have come to the U.S. seeking refuge. Many are fleeing violence and poverty and seeking asylum in the United States. [Take action: Tell President Biden to keep Homestead detention center closed—and stop detaining immigrant children today!]( AFSC worked with partners and community members in Florida and across the country to shut down the detention center in 2019, when it held around 2,000 children under President Trump. Now we’re mobilizing to stop the Biden administration from reopening the center—and urging them to instead prioritize uniting migrant children with family members or sponsors and promote community-based alternatives to detention that are in compliance with the rights of children. President Biden must keep his promise to treat immigrants with the respect and dignity we all deserve. Reopening Homestead—or any child detention center—places young people in greater danger, especially in this pandemic. Detention centers are places where social distancing is impossible, health care is inadequate, and abuses are rampant. And studies have shown that detaining children causes lasting trauma. The cost of that to children, families, and our communities is incalculable. Environmental conditions at this detention center also pose potentially serious health and safety threats to the children who would be housed there, including possible exposure to toxic chemicals from a neighboring Superfund site. We need your voice today. Please join us in pushing to keep families and communities together and say no to locking up migrant children. [Tell President Biden: Keep Homestead detention center closed—and end the detention of migrant children today!]( In peace, Lis-Marie Alvarado, AFSC Florida [TAKE ACTION]( [AFSC logo] American Friends Service Committee 1501 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 United States ● [Donate]( [Facebook]( ● [Twitter]( ● [Instagram]( ● [Blog]( [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Subscribe]( Mother Jones and its nonprofit publisher, the Foundation for National Progress, do not endorse any political candidate, political organization, commercial product, process, or service, and the views expressed in this communication do not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by Mother Jones. This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755